Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-04-08
suicide of Former Citizen of staunton.

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Horace Fl. George, wealthy citizen of
Charlottesville, aged fifty-one years, com.
mltted suicide on Sunday morning last
about 10 O'Clock, by shooting himself. He
was native Of the vicinity of New. Hope,
IN Augusta county. and had lived in early
life lE that village and in Churchville.
He came to Stanton and went into the
store OF Owen q. Morris, where the Au
gusta National Bank now stands, by whom
he was raised to the business of general
merchant. He went from here to Char.
lottesville where he opened general gro
Gerry store and amassed fortune of from
S6O, O0O to $4,000. A few years ago, his
| health failing he retired from business and
with his wife Ia daughter of the venerable
Editor, James Alexander), her father,
son of seventeen years, and two daughters,
lived quiet life. He had brother, DR..
Reuben George, who learned the carpen-
ter's trade with Lushbaugh & Hudson in
Staunton, then studied dentistry, and
established himself as dentist in Char
lottes 7ille, where he married a sister eff
Mr.. E. M. Keblinger, now of the Valley
. Mutual Life Co. of this city. About three
years ago this brother died of cancer, and
Horace George took. his widow and chill
dren to whom he was much attached, to
his own house to live.
For some time past Mr.. Georges ill
health had increased, he imagined that he
was afflicted with the same. disease with
which his brother died. and became the
subject of morbid brooding over his con-
ditIon. On Saturday night about O'Clock
he got up, telling his wife that he thought
he heard burglars and went out. He soon
returned. 1t is now thought that it was
then he put the gun This son's) with which
he killed himself, in the woodhouse On
Sunday morning he got up as usual, ate
hearty breakfast, carried breakfast to his
venerable father-in- law of whom he was
very fond, attended to some little matters
for bis wife and sistef-n-l law, and went out
in the yard. About 10 O'Clock a shot was
heard by Mrs. Reuben George who ran out
into the yard. The door of the woodhouse
was shut and she called to Col Wer.
tembaker, who lives across the street,
for help He came, the woodhouse door
was opened and Mr.. George seen standing
with shocking wound IN the throat-the
larynx and jugular vein being cut. He had
placed the gun under his chin and fired,
but it is supposed it slipped to one side in
his effort to pull the trigger. He was not
dead, but could not speak. nor did he
speak during the thirty minutes he lived
after being carried into the house.
The funeral-took place on Monday af-
ternoon from the Baptist church in Char
lottesville, a building selected because Of
its being the largest there and more likely
to accommodate gathering commen-
surate with the deep feeling Of sympathy
and regret that pervaded all classes of the
town over the loss of prominent and
greatly beloved citizen. DR.. Petrie Of the
PRESBYTERIAN church OBLIGATED, assisted by
Rev. Mr.. Turpin, the pastor. The deceas.
ed was one Of the kindest and best Of men
and The general grief was attested in the
great crowd which gathered at his burial.